IP Case Digest · Patents

Genentech, Inc. v. Controller of Patents and Designs, (T)CMA(PT) No.57 of 2023

Case number
(T)CMA(PT) No.57 of 2023
Date of judgment
Outcome
Remanded

Headnote

Refusal of a markush claim to IAP inhibitors under sections 2(1)(ja) and 3(d) set aside. The Court held the Controller's finding that nobody skilled in the field would have any motivation to select the claimed moiety from the innumerable possibilities listed in the prior art was farfetched: the Controller is not required to predict whether a skilled person would ever select a particular moiety, only to examine whether the claims are patentable.

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